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To: blam
Visited Dye-3 in November of 1970. Its call sign was Sob Story and it was at alittle under 9,000' above sea level. The weight of the ice was such that the land below was depressed to a depth of almost 1000' below sea level.

It was a fairly balmy November and themperature varied from about -40F to -75F. In fact when I called for a C-130 to come pick us up we were told that the weather was -68F and the Air Force would not dispatch aircraft when it was that cold. We had to wait for two days for it to warm up to -61F and our transport came and picked us up and took us to Dye 4 which was Kulusuk Greenland.

Talk about adventures! I spent a year traveling from Eastern Greenland to Western Alaska about 100 miles from Siberia. I saw Moose, Polar Bears, Musk Oxes, White Foxes, ptarmagan birds and even savored some blubber. Yuk, to the blubber. Been there and know for a fact that the Caribou have benefited from the Alaska Pipeline, The Anwar should be tapped and Alglore don't know what he's talking about!

10 posted on 07/05/2007 6:25:26 PM PDT by Young Werther ( and Julius Ceasar said, "quae cum ita sunt." (or since these things are so!))
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To: Young Werther
All sounds very exciting.

" Been there and know for a fact that the Caribou have benefited from the Alaska Pipeline."

I've read that the Caribou females have taken to calving under the pipeline where it is much warmer and many more of the calves survive as a consequence.

21 posted on 07/05/2007 9:16:24 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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